Skip to main content
Rightsizing · Medium severity

Memory Over-Provisioned

A container's memory request is reserved on its node and counts against schedulable capacity, so a request far above real use holds memory away from everything else.

Free to start. No card. The playground just needs your work email.

3clouds covered
Mediumseverity
Savingswhere it shows up
Manualfix, change spelled out

AWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetes

Found, explained, handed over.

Findings with a dollar figure attached, idle, oversized, orphaned, unscheduled and undiscounted spend.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Reduce the memory request on deployment. Where the saving can be proven it is priced; where it cannot, the finding says so.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the change already spelled out, so the fix is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
EKS Deployments on AWS, EKS StatefulSets on AWS, AKS Deployments on Azure, AKS StatefulSets on Azure, GKE Deployments on Google Cloud, GKE StatefulSets on Google Cloud
Category
Rightsizing. Resources sized for headroom they never use. A smaller size runs the same workload for less.
Where it appears
The Savings tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule IDs
RC-1772 RC-1773 RC-1872 RC-1873 RC-1972 RC-1973
Full reference

Memory Over-Provisioned

Related checks

See the oversized resources in your account.

Connect a read-only role and the first pass runs on your own estate. This check, and the rest of the catalogue, with it.

Prefer to talk it through first? Book 20 minutes with the team.

  • $30M+annualised cloud spend under management
  • 550K+resources tracked since launch
  • 20-60%off the bill in the first month
  • SOC 2Type II report, plus ISO 27001

Figures published on zop.dev.

Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 20–60% off the bill, first month· 4 platforms · 1 console· Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 20–60% off the bill, first month· 4 platforms · 1 console·